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STATEMENT OF WM. W. PERKINS OF WEST NEWBURY OF 

 BARLEY CROPS. 



To the Committee, on Grain Crops, Essex Agricultural 

 Soeir/ //. 



Gentlemen : — The acre of barley which I have entered 

 for premium was a part of three acres and thirty-five rods. 

 The ground was plowed the middle of May, six inches 

 deep; harrowed and sowed with three bushels of seed, 

 after the seed was sown, brushed in with brush harrow 

 and rolled with heavy roller. The soil is clay loam, clay 

 predominates, ground quite low, underdrained a few years 

 since. I used no manure, as the ground had been planted 

 with onions for ten or fifteen years, highly manured and 

 generally kept clean from weeds. Harvested the middle 

 of August, threshed and measured. Whole amount of 

 barley on the lot, three acres and thirty-five rods. 133 

 bushels. On the acre I present for premium, forty-three 

 bushels and three peeks weighing forty-eight pounds per 

 bushel. Cannot estimate straw. Was offered 80 cents 

 per bushel for barley. 



EXPENSES. 



Plowing acre, $2 50 



Harrowing '• 1 00 



Sowing " 50 



Brush Rolling acre, 50 



Seed 3 bushels, at $1.35, 4 05 



Harvesting, 1 50 



Threshing, 6 00 



Cleaning, 1 50 



Mowing, 1 50 



Nov., 1888. 



$19 05 

 Wm. W. Perkins, Newbury. 



Note. — 43 3-4 bushels barley at 80 cents, $35 00 



Straw estimated, 23 33 



$58 33 

 Expenses, 19 05 



Profit, $39 28 



